Archives for May 2020

Chris Forrester Some Intelsat smaller shareholders are appealing to the US Trustee that they gain special representation in the bankruptcy court, saying that they are being ignored in the satellite operator’s reconstruction and that they fear being wiped out in the process, as is being reported by journalist Chris Forrester at the Advanced Television infosite. […]

On Saturday, May 30, China launched two satellites into planned orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The two new technology experiment satellites, launched via a Long March-11 carrier rocket at 4:13 a.m. (Beijing Time), will be mainly used for new, Earth Observation (EO) technology experiments, according to China’s press. The Long March-11, developed by […]

Unless SATCOM antenna provider CPI divests themselves of their ASC Signal Division subsidiary, there will be no acquisition of the General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies unit for the firm, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that is now preventing this action from occurring. In August of 2019, CPI announced their plan for this acquisition, […]

  It was a day to remember — a day in United State’s history, as the Demo-2 was safely launched. The delay due to bad weather conditions on Wednesday, May 27, is now in the rearview mirror as the two American astronauts U.S.A.F. Col. Robert L. Behnken, 49,  and Retired Marine Col. Doug Hurley 53, settle in on their […]

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) announced that, during its third quarter of fiscal year 2020, the firm’s Mission-Critical Technologies group, which is part of Comtech’s Government Solutions segment, was awarded a $12.5 million order from Strategic Communications, a domestic integrator, to provide Very Small Aperture Terminal (“VSAT”) Satellite Communications Terminals for a U.S. Government satellite […]

Artistic rendition of a DMSP satellite orbiting Earth. Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. has been awarded a $7,304,322 firm-fixed-price and cost-reimbursement modification (P00013) to contract FA8823-17-C-0001 for Defense Meteorological Satellite Program sensor sustainment. This contract modification provides for the exercise of an option for sensor sustainment of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program on-orbit constellation being provided […]

Artistic rendition of the ViaSat-3 satellite. The cause de rigueur for industry actors these days encompasses smallsats due to their efficacy and viability in accomplishing numerous tasks which were once the purview of larger spacecraft. Now add Viasat to the list of companies planning LEO constellations that are comprised of hundreds of satellites. Gone, apparently, […]

Rocket Lab has resumed launch operations for the firm’s next Electron launch, following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions. Rocket Lab’s 12th Electron launch was postponed from its original date of March 27th following the implementation of the New Zealand Government’s Alert Level 4 Covid-19 national response, which required most businesses to close, restricted travel and […]

Friday, the fourth prototype of SpaceX’s next generation Starship rocket exploded at the company’s south Texas test site. A huge fireball left little to the imagination as it left very little hardware still standing and apparently causing damage to the test site. This is just one day before the first launch with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, and Crew […]